Sustainability Roundup [9 May 2023]
Sustainability Roundup [9 May 2023]
News, Events Links, Jobs (ESG registration, Petition Climate Education for all, job in urban agriculture research)
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News
The European People’s Party adopts a resolution taking a stance against proposed measures to reduce pesticide use in the Eurozone.
Registration for the Earth System Governance Conference, held at Radboud University is now open.
Addressing the Elephant in the Lecture Hall: Climate Education Now. A petition was put forward by 10 academics from 7 Dutch universities: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Radboud University, TU Delft, Breda University of Applied Sciences, University of Amsterdam, University of Twente, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. The open letter & petition urging the Boards of Directors of all Dutch higher education institutions to introduce mandatory climate education in all curricula, emphasize the pressing need to familiarize students with the systemic nature of the climate and ecological crisis and empower them to take action. See our post on the need and challenges of mandating sustainability into al curriculum.
Events
The Radboud Centre for Sustainability seminar series on The Ocean is ongoing!
The second seminar in the Ocean series: Sonic Pipelines and the Value of a Whale with Dr. Lisa Yin Han, Arizona State University [15 May 2023]
Radboud Reflects: The Geopolitics of Environmental Governance,
15 May, 20-21:30, LUX, Nijmegen A lecture and conversation with Environmental social scientist Jennifer Telesca and Political scientist Daniel DeRock. Register here.
Radboud Reflects: Feed the City from Within
24 May, 20:00-21:30, LUX, Nijmegen, a lecture and conversation with historian Kate Brown and Urban Farming researcher Jan-Eelco Jansma. Register here.
Pop-up forest on the Radboud Campus
The Radboud Green Office is putting on a series of outdoor and lunchtime lectures and creative engagements to think of how we can move out of the “Anthropocene” and into the “Symbiocene” 8th of May until June 2nd See the full program here.
“We bet you can hardly imagine it: the Linnaeus square as a green oasis. Where the leaves rustle in the wind and the birds sing their most beautiful tunes. Yet this is what you can experience in our pop-up forest between 8 May and 2 June. Among the native trees and shrubs, you will meet students, artists and academics to talk, listen, experience and imagine together. And of course you can always just enjoy a peaceful moment!”
From “Castle and Moat” to “We are All in the Same Boat” Challenging the notion of property in the law, in practice and in the soul. (Tuesday 23 May, 12:30-13:15) By Adam Calo.
The way we structure the ownership of things is an overlooked root driver of environmental problems. The problem is, that dominant notions of property are deeply embedded in the law, in practice and, most troubling, in our minds. In this talk, Adam Calo will “make strange” the concept of property, reveal how property relations restrict the possibility of sustainability practice, and invite the audience to think of pathways for change. Register here.
Meeting Special Interest Group Sustainability (Tuesday 23 May, 15.00 - 16.30)
Think about sustainability in education. How do we prepare our students to take a stand in a changing, uncertain and complex world? What is the university's role in this? (By TLC, no registration required)
The reemergence of the land sparing ideology: Reconciling agriculture with biodiversity conservation and the persistence of bad idea. (24 May, Linnaeusplein, Heyendaalseweg 137, 12:30-13:15) By Adam Calo.
In this talk Adam Calo will revisit biologist Claire Kremen’s argument for moving beyond over simplified land sparing arguments, showcase a few neo-land sparing discourses and then discuss the implications of a newly legitimized land sparing vision of land governance. Based on the essay: Land spares feel their oats.
Radboud Transact x IMR Academy: Transformative Ideas Seminar#4 Science, technology and innovation in a post-growth era
25 May 2023, 3:30 pm - 5 pm, EOS
The IMR Academy and the hotspot TransAct have invited Dr. Mario Pansera to visit our faculty to discuss his work on science, technology and innovation in a post-growth era. Is innovation necessarily connected to growth of our economies? Mario Pansera states that unentangling innovation from the growth paradigm is key to imagine a post-growth era. We need new narratives for innovation that look beyond technology into cultural, institutional and social changes.
Mario Pansera is director and ERC-grantee of the post-growth innovation lab at the University of Vigo (Spain) and affiliated Researcher at the Autonoma University of Barcelona. His work focuses on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Innovation for degrowth/postgrowth.
His presentation will refer to the projects of PROSPERA and the Horizon 2020 project of JUST2CE; the latter aims at understanding, in a critical and thoughtful way, under which conditions a responsible, inclusive and socially just transition to a circular economy is possible and desirable.
Register here and find the last Seminar Sessions on Transformative ideas of the Transact here.
15 May 14-16:30 The Halkes Women and Faculty Network invite you to join the Event about Evaluation in Radboud:
The main purpose of (student) evaluations is to improve the quality of teaching at Radboud University. In other instances, evaluations are used to hire or promote people. Yet, traditional forms of evaluations are often biased against junior scholars, women and minorities and/or include personal attacks. This raises the question of how we at Radboud University want to evaluate teaching in a better way. More information and registration here.
13 May 13:00 : Action Training A12 Blokkade, Extinction Rebellion Nijmegen, Pontanusstraat 22, Nijmegen. More information here.
27 May 12:00 : A12 Blokkade ‘Stop Fossil Grants’ Exctinction Rebellion Netherlands. Snippet from the XR press release:
‘The latest IPCC report is clear : the disruptive consequences of global warming are greater than previously thought. We must now reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero and stop using fossil fuels immediately. But our government goes completely against science and spends more than five times as much tax money on stimulating fossil fuels as on what has been included in the national budget for climate policy .
Large consumers pay 100 times less tax for their electricity than small companies. Energy producers and refineries do not pay excise duty if they use coal or natural gas. You do not pay VAT or kerosene excise when you fly. Major polluters receive free CO2 emission allowances. In total, some 25 fossil subsidies have been identified so far.
We do not accept this destructive, reckless and inefficient policy. We demand that the government immediately stop all fossil subsidies.
That is why we call on the whole of the Netherlands to block the A12 in The Hague on Saturday 27 May at 12:00 until the government stops fossil subsidies!’ More information here.
Sustainability Links
The latest episode of the Landscapes podcast, “Nature’s Vote” takes on the issue of how humans aim to speak for biodiversity.
What happens when fossil capital funds sustainability research? Fallout from an expose of the Stanford University Doerr School of Sustainability’s focus on greenhouse gas removal.
Challenging the rising costs of academic publishing with Elsevier, a journal’s board walks out, calling for alternative publishing models
Vaughan Higgins, Daniël van der Velden, Noemie Bechtet, Melanie Bryant, Jane Battersby, Melissa Belle, Laurens Klerkx, Deliberative assembling: Tinkering and farmer agency in precision agriculture implementation, Journal of Rural Studies, Volume 100, 2023, 103023, ISSN 0743-0167
Meat the new future of food podcasts from Table Debates
Why Are We Allowing the Private Sector to Take Over Our Public Works? The New York Times. Brett Christophers
Sustainability Jobs
Northeastern University is searching for multiple tenured and tenure-track faculty candidates at all ranks (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and/or Professor) as part of a coordinated university-wide search in the broad research area of Sustainability and Resilience.
Postdoctoral position on the justice dimensions of urban agricultural intensification ( Norway and the Netherlands)
Associate Professor of Sustainable Value Chain Management, Radboud University
Call for 9 research positions to work on the political economy of post-growth at Barcelona with Jason Hickel and Giorgos Kallis
Appointment of Chair in Innovation transition Studies, Utrecht University:
Lectureship in Human-Environment Interactions, Bangor University
Researcher/Lecturer In 'The EU Governance of Climate-Proof Food Systems', Wageningen University
Assistant Professor, Governance of Sustainability Transformations in Food Systems, Wageningen University